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| Marc Dashevsky <usenet@MarcDashevsky.com>: May 01 11:38AM -0500 In article <_uCdnf-gUe8DPpvEnZ2dnUU7-UHNnZ2d@giganews.com>, msb@vex.net says... > 3. Oskar Matzerath, who's confined in a mental hospital, is the > narrator of one of the novels of the German writer Gunter Grass. > What is the title (in English) of that novel? The Tin Drum > most surprising unreliable narrators in literature. He's half > Native American and appears to be deaf and mute. What is > his name? Chief > 8. The narrator of Daphne du Maurier's "Rebecca" labors under a > mysterious and gross misapprehension. Who is the narrator? > Be sufficiently specific. the mansion's housekeeper > 7. Trump's son-in-law was admitted to Harvard in 1998, shortly > after his New Jersey real-estate developer father donated > $2,500,000 to the university. Name the son-in-law. Kushner > a notorious rape. They were later exonerated, but Trump said > last year that he still thinks they're guilty. What name is > used to refer to these wrongly convicted individuals? Central Park jogging case -- Replace "usenet" with "marc" in the e-mail address. |
| Jason Kreitzer <jk71875@gmail.com>: May 01 10:12AM -0700 On Sunday, April 30, 2017 at 10:55:32 PM UTC-4, Mark Brader wrote: > most surprising unreliable narrators in literature. He's half > Native American and appears to be deaf and mute. What is > his name? Chief Browden? > 1. In the late 1980s, this satirical New-York-based magazine > referred to Trump as a "short-fingered vulgarian". Name the > magazine. Spy? > and spoke out against Trump. Name him. > 3. Trump always says to buy American, but only one of his three > wives was born in the United States. Give her maiden name. Maples |
| Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com>: May 01 06:25PM +0100 > 1. Joseph Conrad employed the same unreliable narrator in four of > his works of fiction: "Heart of Darkness", "Lord Jim", "Youth", > and "Chance". What is his name? Marlow > 2. Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights has two unreliable narrators. > Name one of them. (First or last name.) Lockwood > 3. Oskar Matzerath, who's confined in a mental hospital, is the > narrator of one of the novels of the German writer Gunter Grass. > What is the title (in English) of that novel? The Tin Drum > of one of British writer Julian Barnes's novels, is tormented by > memories of his adulterous wife, whose life support he shut off. > What is the title of that novel? Flaubert's Parrot, Staring at the Sun > 5. Husband and wife Nick and Amy serve as dual unreliable narrators > in this bestselling Gillian Flynn novel. What is its title? Gone Girl > named Christine Lucas, whose husband may or may not be malevolent. > Perhaps one morning when she awakes, she'll discover the truth. > What is the novel's title? Before I Go To Sleep > most surprising unreliable narrators in literature. He's half > Native American and appears to be deaf and mute. What is > his name? Chief > 8. The narrator of Daphne du Maurier's "Rebecca" labors under a > mysterious and gross misapprehension. Who is the narrator? > Be sufficiently specific. The Second Mrs de Winter > Quaker John Dowell says, "This is the saddest story I have > ever heard". Dowell is either a master manipulator of facts > or a supremely gullible fellow. What is the novel's title? A Confederacy of Dunces (yeah, yeah, I know) > 10. Crime novels often employ unreliable narrators. US writer > Jim Thompson frequently did so. Two of his novels feature > psychopathic lawmen as unreliable narrators. Name either novel. Killer Joe, The Killer Inside Me > * Game 1, Round 8 - Miscellaneous - Donald J. Trump Too f*****g depressing. |
| Calvin <334152@gmail.com>: May 01 06:41PM -0700 On Monday, May 1, 2017 at 12:55:32 PM UTC+10, Mark Brader wrote: > and "Chance". What is his name? > 2. Emily Brontė's Wuthering Heights has two unreliable narrators. > Name one of them. (First or last name.) Cathy, Heathcliff > What is the title of that novel? > 5. Husband and wife Nick and Amy serve as dual unreliable narrators > in this bestselling Gillian Flynn novel. What is its title? The Girl on the Train, Gone Girl > Quaker John Dowell says, "This is the saddest story I have > ever heard". Dowell is either a master manipulator of facts > or a supremely gullible fellow. What is the novel's title? The Good Soldier > Jim Thompson frequently did so. Two of his novels feature > psychopathic lawmen as unreliable narrators. Name either novel. > * Game 1, Round 8 - Miscellaneous - Donald J. Trump Pass cheers, calvin |
| Pete Gayde <pagrsg@wowway.com>: May 02 04:19AM msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in news:_uCdnf-gUe8DPpvEnZ2dnUU7- > 1. In the late 1980s, this satirical New-York-based magazine > referred to Trump as a "short-fingered vulgarian". Name the > magazine. The New Yorker > and spoke out against Trump. Name him. > 3. Trump always says to buy American, but only one of his three > wives was born in the United States. Give her maiden name. Marla Maples > 4. Family man Trump has fathered at least five children with three > different women. What is the first name of the daughter he > fathered with <answer 3>? Tiffany > 5. Trump has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy for six of his business > properties since 1991. Name any one of these six properties. > The full name must be exact. Trump Taj Mahal > 7. Trump's son-in-law was admitted to Harvard in 1998, shortly > after his New Jersey real-estate developer father donated > $2,500,000 to the university. Name the son-in-law. Jared Kushner > gb 2 lrnef va cevfba va 2005 sbe gnk rinfvba, jvgarff gnzcrevat, > naq vyyrtny pnzcnvta pbagevohgvbaf. Jub jnf gur *HF nggbearl* > va punetr bs gung cebfrphgvba? Jeff Sessions > a notorious rape. They were later exonerated, but Trump said > last year that he still thinks they're guilty. What name is > used to refer to these wrongly convicted individuals? Central Park 5 Pete Gayde --- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. http://www.avg.com |
| Pete Gayde <pagrsg@wowway.com>: May 02 03:23AM Calvin <334152@gmail.com> wrote in > 1 Paisley Park was both the estate and record label of which late > American singer? Prince > 2 Which 17th century pirate became Lieutenant > Governor of Jamaica and now lends his name to a brand of rum? Captain Morgan > 3 Fakes of which historical object were so common that in the 16th > century John Calvin could claim there were enough to build an entire > ship!? Jesus' cross > 4 At 35 years, which astronaut holds the record for the > greatest time between space flights? John Glenn > 5 Which Russian word > describes three horses harnessed side-by-side drawing a carriage? Troika > the "intentional, structured process of intellectual deliberation in > order to speculate, within a specifiable problem domain, about > potential consequences"? Educated guess > 7 Which fictional newspaper does Clark Kent work for? Daily Planet > 8 What does the abbreviation VJ stand for in > relation to a common construction technique? Verticle Joist > 9 Denis Compton represented which country in international cricket? South Africa > possibly the deadliest single day in the history of warfare. The > Napoleonic Wars battle of 7 September 1812 took place near, and is > named after, which Russian village? Minsk > --- > This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. > http://www.avg.com Pete Gayde |
| Marc Dashevsky <usenet@MarcDashevsky.com>: May 01 11:20AM -0500 In article <874lx9spmn.fsf@gmail.com>, gwowen@gmail.com says... > 3. The New England Patriots stormed back against the Atlanta Falcons in > the Super Bowl, overcoming a record deficit. What was the largest > margin by which the Falcons led at any point in the game? 25 points > nineteenth-century American figure? > Science & Nature > 7. The existence of what was confirmed by the LIGO in 2016? gravitational waves > of its kind. Who was the victor? > History > 9. Which English monarch was buried in Leicester Cathedral in 2015? Richard III > 10. Donald Trump won the US Presidency despite losing the popular vote. > Before Trump, who was the last US President to achieve this feat? George W. Bush > 12. Which Middle Eastern country is plagued by a bitter civil war > between rebel Houthis and forces loyal to ousted President Abd Rabbuh > Mansur Hadi? Yemen -- Replace "usenet" with "marc" in the e-mail address. |
| Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com>: May 01 06:21PM +0100 > 1. One of this generation's most acclaimed rappers released a new album > recently, a follow-up to his critically lauded "To Pimp A Butterfly". > Name either the rapper or the album. Kendrick Lamar, "Damn" - I expected this might be a stumper and I was right. rec.games.trivia is not a very Hip-Hop savvy community. I've not heard "Damn", but "To Pimp A Butterfly" is wonderful. > 2. You probably noticed that the wrong film was announced as Best > Picture at the Oscars Ceremony. But who was the award presenter who > actually read the wrong name out? Faye Dunaway -- Warren Beatty opened the envelope (they were celebrating the 50th anniversary of "Bonnie & Clyde"). Then he seemed to realise something was wrong and helpfully handed it to his co-star. > 3. The New England Patriots stormed back against the Atlanta Falcons in > the Super Bowl, overcoming a record deficit. What was the largest > margin by which the Falcons led at any point in the game? 25 points - (28-3) early in the third quarter. > 4. Which German football side were victim of a terrorist bomb attack, > believed by police to have been an attempt to manipulate their stock > price for financial gain? Borrusia Dortmund - one player was injured when a bomb exploded adjacent to the team bus > 5. Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize for Literature, but did not attend the > award ceremony, citing previous commitments. Which fellow > musician/poet accepted the award on his behalf? Patti Smith - a personal favourite of mine. Singleton for Erland. > full-length work, concerning the fictional afterlife of the a real boy, > Willie, who died at age 11. Willie is the son of which > nineteenth-century American figure? Abraham Lincoln - the novel is "Lincoln in the Bardo" > Science & Nature > 7. The existence of what was confirmed by the LIGO in 2016? Gravitational waves - LIGO is the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory. The gravitational particle is still undetected. > 8. Lee Sedol suffered a notable professional defeat last year, the first > of its kind. Who was the victor? Google Deep Mind - Sedol is a Go champion, and Deep Mind is Google's AI program that had been taught to play Go. Any reference to a computer program suffices. > History > 9. Which English monarch was buried in Leicester Cathedral in 2015? Richard III - whose body, discovered in a Leicester car-park had been recently positively ID'd. > 10. Donald Trump won the US Presidency despite losing the popular vote. > Before Trump, who was the last US President to achieve this feat? George W. Bush (the first of his two elections) -- "Bush" scored .5 as insufficiently unique > 11. The leader of the Republic of The Gambia announced a change of its > official name in 2015. In 2017 the incoming President announced that > it would change back. What was its official name in the interim? Islamic Republic of The Gambia - I didn't expect this to be a stumper as there are people here who seem to follow this stuff closely. > 12. Which Middle Eastern country is plagued by a bitter civil war > between rebel Houthis and forces loyal to ousted President Abd Rabbuh > Mansur Hadi? Yemen Results - subject to fact that I'm scoring these while having one eye on "Pointless" so are probably wrong: Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6 Q7 Q8 Q9 Q10 Q11 Q12 Total Peter Smyth 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 4 Dan Blum 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 6 Erland Sommarskog 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 7 Mark Brader 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 4 Calvin 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 .5 0 1 5.5 Dan Tilque 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 6 Marc Dashevsky 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 5 Congratulations Erland - whose singleton on Patti Smith lifted him above a tightly packed field. Thanks for entering. |
| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: May 01 11:58PM +0200 > Congratulations Erland - whose singleton on Patti Smith lifted him above > a tightly packed field. Thanks Gareth! I might have had a small advantage there, living close to the festivities. :-) You will have to accept a small hiatus in the RQ; I'm at a conference for the next two days. But the next should be up no later than the weekend. /Erland |
| Marc Dashevsky <usenet@MarcDashevsky.com>: May 01 11:27AM -0500 In article <1radnZOlwO4dEJ_EnZ2dnUU7-Q_NnZ2d@giganews.com>, msb@vex.net says... > Gur gjb svyzf jrer przragrq gbtrgure naq pbhyq or cynlrq ba n > fgnaqneq cebwrpgbe. Vg jnf yngre ersvarq vagb n uhtryl cbchyne > guerr-fgevc flfgrz va 1932. Anzr gur cebprff. Technicolor > approach. It later settled on a single-screen, single-projector, > single-camera system that increases film resolution by using > a larger film frame. The format is still in use today; name it. IMAX > noise-reduction track. Theatres were reluctant to upgrade, > however, until the firm developed, together with Kodak, a > Quadraphonic system in 1976. Name the firm. Dolby > 2. He set a world record in the decathlon in 1976, and might > be even better-known now, but with a different first name. > Give this person's last name. Jenner > Mary Decker lost her chance for gold in a collision with another > runner, who used to run barefoot. Name the other runner in > this infamous collision. Zola Budd -- Replace "usenet" with "marc" in the e-mail address. |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): May 01 01:14PM -0500 If Marc Dashevsky's answers had been posted on time, he would have scored 12 on Round 4 and 8 on Round 6. -- Mark Brader "This is... a film... almost without explosions." Toronto, msb@vex.net --Mark Leeper |
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